River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-11-17
WEST AND SOuTH.

JAMES HUssEY and Patrick Hogan, Demo
cratic ticket-peddlers, got into dispute at
the polls in Chicago on the Sth, and before
they could be separated the latter shot and
killed the other
BIZ the falling of a bridge over the
Maumee river at Waterville, o., on the Sth
one man was killed and several were fatally
injured
The striking miners in the Springfield
QIL) district decided on the Sth to return to
work at the rates offered by the operators,
sixty-two and half cents ton.
The death OF Judge John NJ. Berry, of the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, occurred at
Minneapolis on the S5h.
TIE MASTERS at Milwaukee not connected
with breweries went out on a strike on the
Sth- The men want sixty dollars a month,
an increase of five dollars over the present
pay
NEAR Wills Point, Tex, very destructive
prairie fire was raging on the Sth, and every
thing combustible had been burned in an
area eight miles square.
II the Patoka Gnd) bottoms, extending
from Dubois County twenty miles down the
river. forest fires We're raging on the eth.
Ii the election in Ohio, on the Sth, Gov
ernor Foraker Rep.l was reelected by 81
600 plurality, with the Legislature Repub-
!
Governor Larrabee 10y $4,000 plurality,
and have a large majority in the Legislature.
In Virginia and Mississippi Democratic
Legislatures were chosen. In Maryland
Elihu T. Jackson (Dem) was elected Gov
ernOr by z, 900 majority. Nebraska elected
Samuel Maxwell tRepl Supreme Judge by
( 20. 900 majority The Prohibition amend
ment in Oregon was defeated by 5000 ma
/ iOrity. Dakota gave a majority of $4,000
IN favor of division of the Territory. In Chi
/ cago the Republicans elected their entire
/ ticket, Judge, States Attorney and com
missioners. by a large majority.
/ Al eleven-year-old cOlored youth named
/ Charles H. Iocksley was sentenced at At
I Ianta, Ga, on the 9th to life-imprisonment
/ for murder.
| FIRE on the 9th destroyed the main
building of the Soldiers Orphans Home at
Davenport, Ia Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
/ SD, 900 flash of lightning caused the
/ fire. No lives were lost
I The deaths of ten persons by poison
I placed in food at a party given by family
named King in Delhi, La, We're reported
E on the 9TH There was trouble in the party,
I and Mrs. King was charged with poisoning
| the food
A CoLoRED crook and desperate named
| George Grant was shot by an officer at
the spot where, i've years ago. he killed
i Policeman Jones For the latter crime an
/ innocent negro was lynChed by a mob.
The iron industry Of Northern Michigan
/ had. it was reported on the 9th, been almost
ruined on account of the scarcity of char
coal
An incendiary fire on the 9th destroyed
/ FIVE of the largest business houses in Muir
freeSboro. Tenn.
N Grant County. Ind, two-thirds of the
wells were dry on the 9th The water fam
inc was causing great suffering.
MATAMORAs Tex advices of the 9th say
that nine OF the bandits captured by the
| military up the river had been executed
The arrest of Cashier c c Creciiius, of
! the suspended Fifth National Bank of ST
/ Louis. was made on the 9th on charges Of
fraud and forgery, amounting TO over
/ S1OO,OO0 The collapse Of the bank was
! due TO his peculatiOns
| AT CimarrOn, Kan. seven business places
/ We're burned on the 9th
/ GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, on the afternoon of
( the lot made public his decision in the
/ case Of the Chicago Anarchists, which COM
mutes the sentences Of Samuel Fielden and
Michael Schwab TO imprisonment for life,
and saws that August Spies. Albert r
| Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel
I llAlHl HtAAAEA AAiE AtAAAAAk "a ANeAAA
Full returns Of the recent election in Da-
kota received on the 10Th report that fifty
six Of the sixty-seven counties in the Ter
ritOry voted in favor OF Prohibition. The
/ Northern half against division, while the
southern part gave n large majority for it
The skeletons Of a man and woman We're
on the 10Th found on farm near Wabash,
Ind Nobody knew any thing Of the mys-
tery surrounding their presence
At Peru. Ind, on the 10th, William Green
was found guilty OF numbering EnOs Brum-
/ haugh The sentence was imprisonment
FOR life He was brother II Amer Green.
lynched recently for killing Luella MabbitL
The plurality for Governor Foraker at the
recent election in Ohio was on the 10th
given az %. 600 The Legislature stsnds:
nate-Republicans. "a; Democrats, 10
and doubtful The House-Repubicans
| 81: Democrats, 4sS and doubtful
At the county jail in Chicago on the
| morning Of the 10th the officials were
startled by a loud report that proceeded
from the cell OF the Anarchist, Louis Lingg
and upon investigation it was discovered
that the desperate man had mutilated hi:
face horribly by exploding a Illuminating
! can in his mouth He survived MS injurie:
about six hours. death ensuing about thret
| o'clock IN the afternoon
A Gr-BoUsE on an Arkansas cotton plan.
tation was destroyed by ire on the 10th,
four men perishing IN the flames
TIE building occupied by the Detroit
; EtsHfsq tsrs was destroyed by FIRE on the
night Of the lOth
GovERSoR LARRABEE's plurality an Iowa al
the recent election was on the 10Eh placed
at about is, 600 and his majority - 5000
} The Republican majority in the Legislature
viii be SO, with one seat in doubt
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some time in tn southern portion of Iii
nOis and IN Sou bern Indiana were on ths
10th partially sx inguisbed by rain
WILLIAM II LocKE, q retired banker wh<